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. 2007 Apr 18;2007(2):MR000021. doi: 10.1002/14651858.MR000021.pub3

Siminoff 2000.

Methods Method: Face‐to‐face interviews probing the criteria that clinicians used when making decisions about treatment. For each interviewee, researchers focused on four recent breast cancer patients who were eligible for the trial. 
 Setting: Cancer services in Pennsylvania between 1993 and 1995. 
 RCT: Adjuvant treatment for breast cancer.
Data Recruitment data: Referral of patient to RCT. 
 (Dis) incentive data: Clinician demographics and attitudes to the trial.
Comparisons Comparison of clinician demographics and attitudes with referral to RCT.
Outcomes Recruitment of the four patients.
Notes Clinicians: 107 surgeons who had patients who were eligible to participate plus 40 oncologists to whom the patients were referred. 
 93/245 (38%) of eligible patient entered the trial. 
 It was not clear whether recruiters were those who recruited some or all of the four eligible patients.